Except that $200k would be worth more in Minnesota than it would in CA, TX or NY, our cost of living is much lower and your dollar goes much further.
How do you figure?
Consumer Prices in Dallas, TX are 0.81% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Dallas, TX are 3.79% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Rent Prices in Dallas, TX are 9.38% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Restaurant Prices in Dallas, TX are 5.02% higher than in Minneapolis, MN
Groceries Prices in Dallas, TX are 14.24% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Local Purchasing Power in Dallas, TX is 0.16% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
So I guess unless you eat out for every meal, Texas is way cheaper.
Not to mention Texas has no state income tax... so add 5% to all of that.
I don't even see a single mention of microtransactions. I know it is dominated by candy crush and clash of clans, but it is possible for the random flappy birds to start making serious lottery money for an indie developer.
The highest grossing apps are all doing it through microtransactions. As much as you and I and everybody hates them, they are here to stay and SOMEBODY is paying 99 cents each for all those "boosts" nobody admits it, yet microtransactions are king(candy crush pun intended).
it would take about a week for us to get used to UTC, which would be a great time to get rid of AM and PM while we are at it. So, lunch is at 1700 and sunrise is at 1200, who cares?
All you have to do is be on Internet Explorer, and trust that a website does what it says it will do in its cryptic http header that was generated by a discontinued, closed source IBM tool, what's the problem?
according to microsoft, only a few inconsequential websites like those losers at Facebook and Google use "technological trickery" to get around this very important abandoned web standard from 2002 that only Internet Explorer implements.
seriously the MSDN article I linked is hilarious, here is a gem:
Unfortunately, a small number of websites (like YouTube and Facebook) circumvent P3P settings by sending a P3P statement that consists of only undefined tokens, like this one:
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See//support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=151657&hl=en-US for more info."
Nvidia supports streaming from the PC to all kinds of stuff. Moonlight(formerly limelight) is an open source android client for Nvidia geforce experience streaming and works well on my 19 dollar Fire Stick attached to my TV, and on both my samsung phones. Steam big picture mode works great.
even better... it is a fork of the IE codebase. NOT from the ground up. You could probably get some bounties just investigating things they already fixed in IE.
If you're a dev, you shouldn't be chasing versions. Find a stable version, stick with it through your project. SE already has enough of that "stuff changing out from under me" feel without adding to the issue.
This mindset is why I still have to support companies that refuse to migrate from IE8. Thanks.
There are currently 2 common mindsets.
1) find a stable version and prevent yourself from ever getting anything better and any upgrade is sure to break tons of stuff
or
2) upgrade versions every time a new one comes out so you get the benefits of incremental improvements, sure stuff breaks, but the next patch will fix it in a matter of days/weeks
On April 8th 2014 the joyful day of XP/IE6 death, which should be considered an international holiday, I think a lot of companies realized that the days of use a "Stable version" for decades is over/no longer realistic.
Now I am not saying "just start upgrading everything always" because the worst thing you can do is try to step out in front of the subway car of continuous integration/continuous improvement after letting a project mature on "stick with the stable version" mentality; but I am saying... the half-assed "stable version" meets patch tuesday bullshit that microsoft is doing will continue to bite you and everybody else in the ass until that entire tech stack stops doing that crap and starts doing the continuous integration thing for real. Chrome does it, every app on your phone tries to do it, "cloud" products do it (that is one of the reasons execs love "cloud").
Microsoft might as well be mailing floppies for how broken and relevant their process is.
previous article...
'I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.... If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.' Personally, I've always thought that the indigenous people of the world really had no chance to avoid contact here on such a small planet, but is hiding under our collective bed an option for humanity in the wider galaxy?" - Stephen Hawking
"Sorry boss, you have to forego this $300,000 a month in income because some guy on the internet said we don't have to support IE7" - unemployed web developer
you can code to web standards unless you have customers. If you have customers, you have to code to whatever craptastic version of Internet Explorer or Firefox they have locked themselves into.
An "honest mistake" is very different from willful ignorance and vitriol though. The literal University professor in question continues to give out my wife's email address. Calling the power company and telling them that they have the wrong person does not work. Logging in to the web page to change your email address does not work (it gets changed back). Contacting the husband, loan officer, and texting said University professor does not work. Telling her university students to PLEASE TELL YOUR TEACHER she is giving out the wrong email address, the correct one is........ does not work either. The only thing that works is directly punishing her for signing up for things with the incorrect email address.
My wife has a common first and last name... her email address is her first name and last name @gmail... She gets everything from electric bills to HOME MORTGAGE CLOSING PAPERS for other people. When she emails back and explains that this is not that person's email address... the idiots become hostile and accuse her of being a hacker.
Now any time she gets a bill for any service, her first step is to recover the password, then schedule service disconnect. Seems harsh, but it is the only way. She has dealt with this for years... Hell if she were malicious, she has the account balance, social security number, bank account numbers, credit history, and/or University staff login credentials for half a dozen people who have targeted her for "reverse identity theft." No matter how much she begs them to stop.
Oh by the way... other woman who lives in NYC, 5 guys burgers emailed and said your order is ready for pick-up.... Maybe eating burgers and fries 6 times a week isn't the best for you though.
Why should an ideological stance on the regulation of guns and computers be the same? They clearly are different tools with much different uses.
I think you are wrong about that. The ideological stance on gun ownership in the bill of rights had a lot to do with empowering people to overthrow their corrupt government. Guns no longer have that power for the most part. Computers do. When was the last time a Deer Rifle toppled a world power? When was the last time twitter did? The answer is 2011 Or maybe even 2014
Computers aren't the same thing as guns, in fact they are a lot more powerful.
If you need to ask yourself WHEN it will fail, that is the wrong question. The right question is "are you ready for imminent hard drive failure?"
If you are not running under the assumption that your hard drives will randomly fail, you have already lost. I have 20 year old drives still spinning, and 2 month old drives turned paper-weights.
websites *will* find another way to serve ads, whether it's through an EULA or randomizing/obfuscating the references to ads, or even serving the pages as images.
I would be happy about an ad strategy that doesn't break the pages I want to browse. If they come up with an alternative to current ad strategies that doesn't result in accidental malware attacks and autoplay videos and flash animations, I will be too lazy to block it.
Adblock plus is pretty much the most effective antivirus on the market, even though that isn't even their intent, and that is the primary reason I use it.
I wonder what percentage of voice communication is currently robots talking to robots. I mean, personally 99% of voice traffic attributed to accounts I pay for is simply robocalls hitting my VoIP mailbox, being transcribed into text, then emailed to my inbox.
Eventually it will be an unprofitable model right? right?
The only possible explanation is such a small percentage of voice calls need to actually be heard in order for scammers to get enough money to be worth it. God, how do stupid people have so much money to lose?
Honestly, as a hiring manager of developers, a github profile link (that contains actual work) will get you hired faster than anything else on your resume.
A job board/partnership would be pretty reasonable imo.
I run xbmc/kodi on my Fire Stick currently. It is a huge annoying pain in the ass that Amazon won't let me have a shortcut to it on my Fire main page... You have to go to settings -> Applications -> Manage installed applications -> XBMC -> Launch Application... But when I get there it works exactly how I want it.
Lets face it, Kodi on the app store vs Kodi sideloaded is no big difference... A user sophisticated enough to actually run something through XBMC is sophisticated enough to run ADB to sideload apps over the network.
I am just glad the fire stick isn't more locked down than it is. Since I got it for 14 dollars, it is the cheapest possible way to run XBMC on my TV.
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Except that $200k would be worth more in Minnesota than it would in CA, TX or NY, our cost of living is much lower and your dollar goes much further.
How do you figure? Consumer Prices in Dallas, TX are 0.81% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Dallas, TX are 3.79% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Rent Prices in Dallas, TX are 9.38% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Restaurant Prices in Dallas, TX are 5.02% higher than in Minneapolis, MN
Groceries Prices in Dallas, TX are 14.24% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
Local Purchasing Power in Dallas, TX is 0.16% lower than in Minneapolis, MN
So I guess unless you eat out for every meal, Texas is way cheaper.
Not to mention Texas has no state income tax... so add 5% to all of that.
Millionaires and Suckers, which one are you? Check your wallet.
I don't even see a single mention of microtransactions. I know it is dominated by candy crush and clash of clans, but it is possible for the random flappy birds to start making serious lottery money for an indie developer.
The highest grossing apps are all doing it through microtransactions. As much as you and I and everybody hates them, they are here to stay and SOMEBODY is paying 99 cents each for all those "boosts" nobody admits it, yet microtransactions are king(candy crush pun intended).
it would take about a week for us to get used to UTC, which would be a great time to get rid of AM and PM while we are at it. So, lunch is at 1700 and sunrise is at 1200, who cares?
All you have to do is be on Internet Explorer, and trust that a website does what it says it will do in its cryptic http header that was generated by a discontinued, closed source IBM tool, what's the problem?
according to microsoft, only a few inconsequential websites like those losers at Facebook and Google use "technological trickery" to get around this very important abandoned web standard from 2002 that only Internet Explorer implements.
seriously the MSDN article I linked is hilarious, here is a gem:
Unfortunately, a small number of websites (like YouTube and Facebook) circumvent P3P settings by sending a P3P statement that consists of only undefined tokens, like this one:
//support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=151657&hl=en-US for more info."
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See
oh, fire trucks too!
"Jigawat" is the accepted pronunciation for the term involving electricity. according to Webster's dictionary
Nvidia supports streaming from the PC to all kinds of stuff. Moonlight(formerly limelight) is an open source android client for Nvidia geforce experience streaming and works well on my 19 dollar Fire Stick attached to my TV, and on both my samsung phones. Steam big picture mode works great.
even better... it is a fork of the IE codebase. NOT from the ground up. You could probably get some bounties just investigating things they already fixed in IE.
If you're a dev, you shouldn't be chasing versions. Find a stable version, stick with it through your project. SE already has enough of that "stuff changing out from under me" feel without adding to the issue.
This mindset is why I still have to support companies that refuse to migrate from IE8. Thanks.
There are currently 2 common mindsets.
1) find a stable version and prevent yourself from ever getting anything better and any upgrade is sure to break tons of stuff
or
2) upgrade versions every time a new one comes out so you get the benefits of incremental improvements, sure stuff breaks, but the next patch will fix it in a matter of days/weeks
On April 8th 2014 the joyful day of XP/IE6 death, which should be considered an international holiday, I think a lot of companies realized that the days of use a "Stable version" for decades is over/no longer realistic.
Now I am not saying "just start upgrading everything always" because the worst thing you can do is try to step out in front of the subway car of continuous integration/continuous improvement after letting a project mature on "stick with the stable version" mentality; but I am saying... the half-assed "stable version" meets patch tuesday bullshit that microsoft is doing will continue to bite you and everybody else in the ass until that entire tech stack stops doing that crap and starts doing the continuous integration thing for real. Chrome does it, every app on your phone tries to do it, "cloud" products do it (that is one of the reasons execs love "cloud").
Microsoft might as well be mailing floppies for how broken and relevant their process is.
previous article... ... If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.' Personally, I've always thought that the indigenous people of the world really had no chance to avoid contact here on such a small planet, but is hiding under our collective bed an option for humanity in the wider galaxy?" - Stephen Hawking
'I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.
"Sorry boss, you have to forego this $300,000 a month in income because some guy on the internet said we don't have to support IE7" - unemployed web developer
you can code to web standards unless you have customers. If you have customers, you have to code to whatever craptastic version of Internet Explorer or Firefox they have locked themselves into.
Ah, the south... Plenty of sun, wind, infrastructure, and tax breaks.
"green" is more of a checkbox than an honest mindset.
isn't that the human/hubris way? As long as you are going after free energy, what does it matter if you use X KWH vs X+1 KWH?
An "honest mistake" is very different from willful ignorance and vitriol though. The literal University professor in question continues to give out my wife's email address. Calling the power company and telling them that they have the wrong person does not work. Logging in to the web page to change your email address does not work (it gets changed back). Contacting the husband, loan officer, and texting said University professor does not work. Telling her university students to PLEASE TELL YOUR TEACHER she is giving out the wrong email address, the correct one is ........ does not work either. The only thing that works is directly punishing her for signing up for things with the incorrect email address.
My wife has a common first and last name... her email address is her first name and last name @gmail... She gets everything from electric bills to HOME MORTGAGE CLOSING PAPERS for other people. When she emails back and explains that this is not that person's email address... the idiots become hostile and accuse her of being a hacker.
Now any time she gets a bill for any service, her first step is to recover the password, then schedule service disconnect. Seems harsh, but it is the only way. She has dealt with this for years... Hell if she were malicious, she has the account balance, social security number, bank account numbers, credit history, and/or University staff login credentials for half a dozen people who have targeted her for "reverse identity theft." No matter how much she begs them to stop.
Oh by the way... other woman who lives in NYC, 5 guys burgers emailed and said your order is ready for pick-up.... Maybe eating burgers and fries 6 times a week isn't the best for you though.
Anyone can kill a person. It takes everyone to kill a government.
Why should an ideological stance on the regulation of guns and computers be the same? They clearly are different tools with much different uses.
I think you are wrong about that. The ideological stance on gun ownership in the bill of rights had a lot to do with empowering people to overthrow their corrupt government. Guns no longer have that power for the most part. Computers do. When was the last time a Deer Rifle toppled a world power? When was the last time twitter did? The answer is 2011 Or maybe even 2014
Computers aren't the same thing as guns, in fact they are a lot more powerful.
Escalator temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenience (Mitch Hedberg)
If you need to ask yourself WHEN it will fail, that is the wrong question. The right question is "are you ready for imminent hard drive failure?"
If you are not running under the assumption that your hard drives will randomly fail, you have already lost. I have 20 year old drives still spinning, and 2 month old drives turned paper-weights.
websites *will* find another way to serve ads, whether it's through an EULA or randomizing/obfuscating the references to ads, or even serving the pages as images.
I would be happy about an ad strategy that doesn't break the pages I want to browse. If they come up with an alternative to current ad strategies that doesn't result in accidental malware attacks and autoplay videos and flash animations, I will be too lazy to block it.
Adblock plus is pretty much the most effective antivirus on the market, even though that isn't even their intent, and that is the primary reason I use it.
I wonder what percentage of voice communication is currently robots talking to robots. I mean, personally 99% of voice traffic attributed to accounts I pay for is simply robocalls hitting my VoIP mailbox, being transcribed into text, then emailed to my inbox.
Eventually it will be an unprofitable model right? right?
The only possible explanation is such a small percentage of voice calls need to actually be heard in order for scammers to get enough money to be worth it. God, how do stupid people have so much money to lose?
Honestly, as a hiring manager of developers, a github profile link (that contains actual work) will get you hired faster than anything else on your resume.
A job board/partnership would be pretty reasonable imo.
I run xbmc/kodi on my Fire Stick currently. It is a huge annoying pain in the ass that Amazon won't let me have a shortcut to it on my Fire main page... You have to go to settings -> Applications -> Manage installed applications -> XBMC -> Launch Application... But when I get there it works exactly how I want it.
Lets face it, Kodi on the app store vs Kodi sideloaded is no big difference... A user sophisticated enough to actually run something through XBMC is sophisticated enough to run ADB to sideload apps over the network.
I am just glad the fire stick isn't more locked down than it is. Since I got it for 14 dollars, it is the cheapest possible way to run XBMC on my TV.